Dr. Anthony Phan practices internal medical and integrative medicine in California where his specialty is geriatrics. Dr. Phan recently went public in two separate interviews to speak about the troubles he sees descending upon America through its medical community. Dr. Phan’s journey from unconsciousness to truth is becoming an all too common story as many begin to understand the shortcomings of the current medical paradigm. To grasp the gravity and depth of Dr. Phan’s analysis and message, it is important to first understand his early life as a child in Vietnam.

On April 30, 1975, Saigon, the capital of Vietnam, fell to the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. The event marked not only the end of the Vietnam war but also the beginning of communistic rule in the country with the defeat of the South Vietnamese. It was at that moment that Dr. Phan’s parents made the ultimate decision.

“My parents, back in 1975, believed that a system that has total control over your life, over what you read, over what you eat, over what you should think is wrong. So they risked everything, including their lives, to escape to America.”

Dr. Phan is part of a new wave of doctors who have shifted their thinking around vaccinations and the medical system that forces them, once presented with the mounting, irrefutable evidence of harm. After beginning to see patterns of adverse reactions emerging from the vaccines he administered to patients in his practice, Dr. Phan started investigating.

“Around the year 2000 when I did my integrative medicine fellowship…I started noticing that every time I would give a flu shot to my older patients, they would get very sick with upper respiratory tract infections, some would get pneumonia, some would be admitted to the hospital and die.”

“One area I’m fascinated about is the immune system. Here I’m giving them [patients] something [a vaccine] to help them prevent sickness but theyalways get sick.”

After years of personal observations and independent study into vaccinations, Dr. Phan, like many in America, learned about the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) senior research scientist Dr. William Thompson’s admissions of research fraud. It was at that moment many in the US exposed to the CDC whistleblower’s information made a similar decision to Dr. Phan's:

“When I found out about the doctor from the CDC, the whistleblower, that was when I said, No more. The CDC’s now compromised. Why would you want to read anything from the CDC? And that’s when I stopped.”

Armed with a historical perspective, Dr. Phan, like a growing number of health professionals, saw a dangerous trend over the last few years as more states move towards mandatory vaccinations and increased tracking of patients who express their medical choice and informed consent. In April 2017 the National Vaccine Information Tracking Center (NVIC) sent out an alert that it was monitoring 173 vaccine bills in 40 states. A positive spin is that a small but growing percentage of the new bills are actually expanding medical freedom and vaccine exemptions in some states.

Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals are rewarded and incentivized to increase vaccination rates at all costs. In addition, a growing trend of doctors are ‘firing’ patients from their practice because the patients, and prospective patients, refuse vaccination and/or decline to vaccinate their children. The vaccination bonuses received by the medical community are bestowed by factoring the percentage of patients vaccinated within a particular practice. Are doctors removing patients who want medical choice simply to keep their percentages high in order to achieve their bonuses? Another disturbing trend are the demands, by government agencies and private insurance companies, being put upon doctors to turn over their patient records. Like many doctors, Dr. Phan has experienced the pressure to both increase vaccination rates and disclose his patients' personal information. When asked by HighWire host Del Bigtree if he felt like the state and its bureaucrats are starting to tell him how to do his job, Dr. Phan responded:

“One hundred percent…all the time…every single day. And it’s through incentives. If I turn in medical records, if I’m eighty percent, I will get $15,000 a year. If I prescribe a certain class of medication, I’ll get more money. So first it was incentives and I resisted all of those programs. I’m proud to say I received zero money for it. But now it’s about, if you continue to do what you’re doing, we are going to get you off the insurance list.”

So what options are physicians, especially those in California at the moment, left with if they feel strongly about protecting their patients and continuing to adhere to the founding principles of medicine demanded by their Hippocratic Oath? Many see a time coming when state governments, health agencies and the insurance companies will collectively corner doctors into a position in which they will lose their license for not complying. Perhaps that point is upon many doctors already. In Dr. Phan’s view, if the day comes in which his medical license is threatened to be removed by an encroaching state of medical tyranny, his answer is simple, “Okay that’s fine with me.I’m not going to be part of a crime.”

On January 30, 1968, the Tet Offensive was launched. It was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam war consisting of surprise attacks upon South Vietnamese and American forces. Perhaps the most sobering message of the entire interview was when Bigtree asked the following:

“If we don’t change this, if the way California is working sweeps across this nation, what do you think that means about the United States of America? Do you think that we’re still free? Can we still call ourselves free if we don’t have control over what's injected into us?”

Dr. Phan responded:

“Absolutely not! To me this is the 1968 Tet Offensive. The enemies are coming. And if we don’t win this battle it’s over for the State of California. It’s going to spread throughout everywhere. So this is Tet. I’m willing to stay here and fight it…Please in this coming election in California, please know your candidates and please vote.”